I used to be all into clay (the type that is always soft) and I was actually good at it. Making small little peoples with lot of details, but I fell so much in love with drawing... And... Yeah, my point is, I feel your pain.

Oh yeah, that's my favorite too And I just HAD to do those six-fingered hands even though it's a lot of work with such small details. I have a tattoo of a traditional Alien on my ancle, and when the tattoo artist drew up the design, he asked me how many fingers it's supposed to have, and he was all like "aaaaaaw dammit!" 'cause I knew it's supposed to have six - he was hoping to get away with less

haha lol I hate it when they're lazy and try to make excuses and explanations by modifying the 'myth' and the biology.I can see how predaliens are tempting to make, but they've gotten themselves in a huge mess with that concept... the whole "taking after the organism the alien is incubated in"-thing just seems generally inconsistent - sometimes it looks a bit like the host, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it looks exactly like the Alien incubated in humans even though it's incubated in an organism on an alien planet

I know- lots of confusion! Like if they do take after the organism they incubate in, then why do the aliens in the fourth film have digitigrade legs even though they were all hatched from human hosts? Taking after the host would make sense, but they're always so inconsistent it just makes you sick.

Haha - I've always been annoyed by that difference in the legs! You know what their excuse is? That Ridley Scott and Giger originally wanted the Alien to have the digitigrade legs, and that they just completed the design that couldn't work out back in '79, because they HAD to do the man-inside-an-Alien-suit thing back then

That, and most shots of it in the movie only show the top half, or close ups focusing on the face, so the legs weren't a main concern. That 'less is more' mentality really worked in that movie because it left a bit of mystery. Now, they show off a monster in the first ten minutes of a movie. Culture and cinema are really taking a downturn.